This is why you shouldn't have skipped that chemistry class..You know you did! Enjoy!

Here's a wonderfully cool chemistry experiment done with liquid nitrogen. It literally explodes! Enjoy!

Here's a cool "how to" video showing us how to make a cool party trick: making a tomato glow by using phosphorus, bleach and oxygenated water. It's really cool!Enjoy!

I remember chemistry class as very boring and with all kinds of formulas that made me fall asleep. Well...at the Ontario Science Center, kids can take passion in chemistry by watching a cool show. Here it is on video, one part of that show!

Here are some cool tricks you can do at home with a gas that is denser than air. Pretty cool, especially after inhaling it!

If you listen carefully you can hear one of the kids saying "Glasses On!". Unfortunately they didn't think of other "vital" areas that need protection =] This one is simply hilarious! I'm glad they had they're goggles on properly...we wouldn't want them to get hurt now, would we?

...if you know how to do it right, that is! This can't be said about this teacher right here! Damn!

This is some impressive stuff. Rumor has it that you can buy this at fireworks stores. Anyway, I've never seen something like this. Really cool! Enjoy!

Small robots that walk on water like insects? The kitchen table, the walls of a room or the arms of an armchair that are self-cleaning? Two phenomena that Xiao Cheng Zeng, a professor of chemistry at University of Nebraska in Lincoln (USA), considers possible in the near future, and based on the same characteristic: super hidrofobia. Thanks to the computational performance of the super computer of the Riken Institute in Japan, the researcher is able to reproduce the conditions that give the area the property is to "roll" away the drops of water. In nature this phenomenon is observed on the bristles of caterpillars or on lotus flowers, and allows insects that often are seen on ponds slip skate on water. As the authors of the study reported the caterpillars or insects skaters get the super hydrophobia surface through a "two-tier" surface which means a waxy base on which there are microscopic structures like hair, often covered in turn by smaller "hair". These gradients decrease the surface area in contact with the drop of water. The result is that the drop rolls instead of sliding, as it would be a hydrophobic surface.

How can you convert waste into energy in the most efficient way possible? The secret is in riboflavin. The microorganisms have the ability to change the chemistry of the environment. This is known for a long time, but if some of these can generate energy from the degradation of organic compounds has not yet been clarified. One answer comes from an American study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Pnas): BioTechnology researchers from the Institute of the University of Minnesota have found that the riboflavin, better known as vitamin B-2, is the key to the production of electricity by the microorganism Shewanella, a bacterium that is commonly found in water and soil.